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Think Being an Eldest Daughter Is Bad? Try Being From an Immigrant Family.
"Hajra started working for her dad when she was just nine."
Trump Is Half Scottish. So We Asked Scots What They Think of Him.
"He's like a spoiled child who should have had his bum smacked when he was young."
When Christmas Dinner Comes with a Side of Rice and Peas
Migration to any country creates a collision of cultures that often manifests itself in food. As a third-generation British Jamaican, I know this all too well.
'Buah' Is a Zine Dedicated to Connecting the Indonesian Diaspora
The online zine explores the intersections of identity, politics, and the notion of "home".
Becoming My Own Half-Asian Man
Zachary Schwartz details his experience grappling with masculinity and race as a young man with a white father and an Asian mother.
Photographer Re-Discovers Her Mexican American Heritage
Photographer Cristina Bartley unpacks the layers of her identity on this photo series exploring Latin American rituals, womanhood, and performativity
Joyful Photos of a Wild Puerto Rican Day Parade in NYC from the 80s
Ahead of the 60th annual parade, photographer Ricky Flores shares his snapshots from the 1983 celebration in Central Park.
These Female Distillers Have Been Making Mezcal Since Childhood
With mezcal's popularity at an all time high, I recently met three female master distillers in Oaxaca who've been perfecting the art of making mezcal since they were young children to learn some of their secrets.
Joseph Boyden’s Apology and the Strange History of ‘Pretendians’
Boyden is hardly the first person to be alleged to have faked Indigenous roots for material or spiritual gain.
Why I Hate Hispanic Heritage Month
Instead of creating any real change, it's largely become an opportunity for advertisers to pander to Latinos in the United States.
Taco Bell's New Locations Will Have Fireplaces and Midcentury Furniture
There are outdoor fireplaces. There’s Etsy-esque geometric rainbow wall art, and reclaimed wood, or maybe wood that hopes to look reclaimed but is actually artificially distressed like 1998 Abercrombie & Fitch jeans. There are funky hanging lamps...